Printer&#39;s spacing element



Oct. 22, 1929. E. P. HULSE i 1,732,233

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Patented Oct. 22, 1929 EDWARD P. HULSE, OF WESTFIELD, NEW JERSEY PRINTERS SPACING ELEMENT Application filed November 16, 1927. Serial No. 233,568.

The object of my invention is to provide, as a new article of manufacture, a spacer for printers use of a generally improved design and construction adapted to be manufactured in quantities at Very little expense.

When type matter is set up in columns in the form, the printer uses a thin strip of metal, called a reglet, to separate the columns. The reglet is necessarily somewhat shorter 0 than the lengths of the columns in order to permit the lines of types to be closed up when the form is locked up. My improved spacer serves to extend the reglet all the way down to the furniture during the process of locking up the form, thus serving to separate the type matter at the foot, or top, of the columns and prevents any types from falling into the otherwise empty space at the end of the reglet.

My invention, therefore, is embodied in a column spacing element in the form of a small flat piece of metal, which may be prepared in any suitable manner by casting, stamping or otherwise, and of suitable dimensions for its purpose.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating my invention Fig. 1 shows a portion of a chase with two columns of type matter locked up and separated by my improved column spacer.

Fig. 2 is a face View of the onepart of the column spacer. v

Fig. 8 is a face View of the other, symmetrical, component part of the column spacer.

Fig. 4 shows the two parts in interlocked or assembled position. I

Fig. 5 is an edge View of the spacer.

In the drawing the reference numeral 6 denotes a portion of one end of a chase containing two columns of lines of types 7 and 8 locked up within the chase between suitable blocks 9 and quoins 10, alljof the usual design and construction and in a well known manner.

The two columns 7 and 8 are separated by a reglet 11 and my improved column spacer 12, 12.

My improved column spacer comprises two symmetrical parts 12 and 12. Each part is in the form of a flat rectangular body of metal of any usual or standard printers measure, prefer ness, but it may ably of twelve point thickbe eighteen point or twentyfour point, or even only six point, or of any other special or desired thickness. Each body is at one end formed with interlocking projections 14, 14 between which and to one side of one of them there are of substantially spaces 15, 15 the same width as the projections. The projections extend in the plane of the body, one

of them beingflush with the one edge of the body.

Two of these bodies are assembled as shown in Figure 4 with the projections or tongues 14 of the one body occupying the spaces 15 of the other body. The two bodies thus occupy the same space in width but are capable of a longitudinal sliding movement relative to each other.

In use, my improved column spacer is placed between the adjacent columns of type matter at the end of the separating reglet 11.

When the form is closed up the two spacer bodies will be moved toward each other and exactly fill the space between the columns remaining at the end of the reglet 11 and compensate for the types.

.It will also .be be used under shown, as for example, at the margins of compression of the lines of obvious that my spacer may other conditions than those 'I claim As a new article of manufacture a column spacer element comprising a relatively flat rectangular body having at its one end two integral longitudinally extending tongues separated by a space of equal width, one of said tongues being tudinal edge of flush with the one longisaid body, the other being spaced from the other longitudinal edge of the body a distance equal to the space between the tongues, which latter are of a thickness equal to the thic kness of the body.

EDWARD P. HULSE'. 

